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March 1st, 2009

12:21 am - Oh what fun! "the sweeping change that this country demanded when it went to the polls in November."- Obama Did he forget that less than one half of one half of the US population voted for him? Also less than one half of the other half DIDN'T vote for him. No one demanded anything. So blinded by the hatred of Bush people just voted against McCain without thinking. If sweeping change is insane spending, bigger government and more impedance on people's lives.....I don't even think that the people who voted for him knew what they were getting....way to go!  Current Mood: amused Tags: political rant

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February 27th, 2009

08:32 am - Let the Taxing Begin! I'm sitting here with a HUGE "I told you so" grin on my face. Why? Because I was right as well as many others about Obama. Sure it's not a "direct" tax but he's gonna tax the fuck out of everything that we use! To fund SCHIP (which I do think is a good idea btw) the tobacco I buy is going to be going from $10.99 to OVER $40 a bag. .70 cents per pack and $7 per carton in PA. How the fuck is that fair? Not to mention the state of Pennsylvania may be raising it's own tax. In New York City come April 1st a carton of cigarettes is going be around $180! Our yearly costs right now for cigarettes are $960 a year....starting April 1st it'll go up to $2400!!!! That's almost 3 times as much...all the other taxes proposed could put companies out of business or force them to leave the country for better financial prospects...so again..more cost on the consumer, possible job loss and possible company closure. Sure it's only one industry but I doubt the Fed is going to bail out the tobacco companies. When they make smokers such a minority I'm sure they'll go after alcohol or something else that effects even more people... Now his new budget has him putting more taxes on oil and energy companies. Who do you think pays that? The company? Ha! We do and we all know it. Just recently a .68cent per gallon tax was shot down, but something tells me that they'll go higher and it won't go away since it's money going to the federal government. It's already gone up in a couple of states overnight by at least .17cents. Thought ya were pissed about $4.00 a gallon gas? Get ready for it to go even higher if Obama has his way. Electric bills are also going to go up here so yea, chew on that for a few. You aren't being taxed directly...but will pay for it somehow. with that my personal gas spending will go from $75 a month to $96 a month which makes it OVER $500 more a year (not counting longer trips) So once again it's proven that while not trigger happy...Obama is spending happy and taxes WILL go up. Everyone warned about this...but so entranced by "tax cuts" on income tax blinded people. Now you get to save a whole $400 a year and probably will spend more than in energy costs making it all a moot point. Just on two things that I use every day under Obama I'm spending $1000 MORE just on gas and cigarettes than I did before (including the $400 in tax cuts from Obama that is) under Bush. That's just TWO things...I'm sure there will be more down the road as it all filters through the system. If Natural Gas taxes go up...then we're all screwed...could be that someone like myself is spending $2-3,000 more a year. That $400 is such a help! Not... Let's not forget that he's also going to INCREASE the debt by 1.75 TRILLION this year ALONE! We're already broke where the hell is this money coming from? Scrores of people are saying this isn't going to work...but for those that haven't seen it yet..here's a little breakdown: 5 years of war in Iraq=850 Billion 36 Days of Obama Spending Plans=3.5 TRILLION! So..who's better looking now? The war in Iraq AND the bank bailout/TARP is only HALF of what Obama has already spent. There's no garauntee any of this is going to work. Hell even Obama admits it may not. Sheesh....hope ya'll are happy. And for the record...if McCain/Palin did this shit if they were elected...I'd be just as pissed. Current Mood: aggravated Tags: political rant

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February 14th, 2009

03:46 am - Obama...Bush...Obama...Bush...Obama...Bush...Obama...Bush... Obushma? Obupelorema? I've been reading...yes I know that's dangerous, but I have been. In light of this latest "stimulus" package that just passed I figured I might as well read on up on where my tax money is going. Figure it's only right to do it. In doing so I realized a couple of things. Democrats need to stop blaming Republicans and Republicans need to stop blaming Democrats. EVERYONE in Congress and the past three (including Obama) presidents should all be taken out back and beaten with a switch. Clinton allowed for the legislation housing market collapse and the congress at the time passed the stuff too so they're to blame on that. Bush ended up spending waaaaay too much on a war in Iraq that seemed like a good idea but the focus should've been in Afghanistan more. Bush also allowed Congress to get away with $700billion to bail out the banks. Obama is already guilty of the same old politics and is already spending waaaay too much in a month! $787billion to "stimulate" something or other. I'm not sure what exactly it's going to do because I don't have a masters degree in Washington Bullshit. That and 1087 pages is a lot to get through...even if I did understand it all. Congress right now rushed through this process...less than a month? Are you fucking serious? For what? More debt and a $400 check? At least Bush despite his screw ups gave us $600! Dem's complained that "what is $11 dollars extra a week gonna do?" so now Repubs are saying what is $7.60 gonna do? Really...if ya can't take what ya dish out...DON'T SAY IT or quit...we could all be so helpful. And yes, that's what the $400 equates to per week....maybe with the other things in the bill it comes to about $13 a week...wow! Such a stimulus! Both plans were idiotic. I mean what does $450million for the CDC or $600million for the cable converters or several of the other things that are for research and other such nonsense have to do with the economy? Couldn't those programs have waited a month or so? Why not focus on the problem and not every other small thing? One problem at a time...this just adds more from what I see. The US Government AND a majority of the people are OVER SPENDING. Both administrations have just spent twice the amount of what the ENTIRETY of WWII cost the US in a few months. That's deplorable. Neither thought anything through...they just rushed and we're all paying for it. Did they forget that the US doesn't have that much money and we've had to borrow money constantly from other countries? I mean come on here...this is just insane. It's no secret that I don't like Obama, but so far I'm just not impressed. He just wanted it done, didn't care who did it or what any of the opposition said. That opposition represents 58million voters out there that DIDN'T vote for him. Any President that preaches transparency and bi-partisanship and then tells people "I won, do what I want" (paraphrasing there) should be beaten. Bush spent too much on the war...$10billion a month. Obama will end up spending the same if not more in Afghanistan. (based on his own plan) So who's right there? Eh, tough to say...besides does anyone know if that $10billion included both fronts as in Iraq and Afghanistan? I'm not sure since no one has really said anything on that one. So either way it's a stuck position but only time will tell if it was smartly spent or not on either count. Congress voted themselves a raise already under Obama...which really doesn't mean much since they always do that. Ok, so it was petty cash but it's double what the average salary in PA is for god's sake! Government spending money, voting raises, buying new planes ect...when they're telling us not to spend and that we're all doomed?! Please...the entirety of Washington is OUT OF TOUCH. Dem's, Republicans, those crazy Green Party people...the whole lot of them! The point of this is that no single issue is the problem...the problem is GOVERNMENT. What the US Government has turned into is a joke. There was a time when the loser of the presidential race was named the VP. Why? Balance...there is no balance to anything anymore. They get what they want. Something this altering to the landscape of the US should've been brought to the people. A 2/3 majority vote by the ENTIRE country. Hell people could've e-mailed the votes in if they wanted to probably. So again, remember....we're all to blame for this mess. Can't blame Bush, can't blame Obama or any one party individually. EVERYONE (or damn near) that's been voted into Washington over the past 16 years (maybe more) has fucked us all while they raise their pay, fly around and live on our dollar with no worries about their future while the rest of us are stuck with the bill. We've just spent an extra 2/3 of the Federal Budget in 6 months...yea that's gonna fix what again? Hopefully this works, I don't know if it will but something says it won't to me. When it doesn't I hope to god that the American people realize that we've all been had. Screw the politics, screw the ideology....unless the people take back America and make Washington realize that it's not entitled and it WORKS FOR US! If that doesn't happen in some manner...I'm afraid that we've all screwed ourselves. Just remember we're spending $91,045,500 a YEAR on these assholes. (based on the average salary alone...doesn't include medical, retirements, petty cash, kick backs, travel, limo service, or anything else) The number is probably much higher if I included other things in there. If you add in the petty cash thing they just voted that's another $50million of our money...for what? Does anyone think it's actually gonna go to their constituents? Maybe some of it but not all of it...and let's not forget all the staff they have. Oh yea...one more thing...those people that bought things they couldn't afford. Drove up their debt to try and keep up with the Jones'....FUCK YOU! You screwed us just as much as those assholes in Washington. Again, I'm trying to be as non-partisan as possible with this. I'm not angry at any one side more than the next...the whole thing just disgusts me. Both parties have done some things in the past few years that are just amazingly absurd. And despite that statement it's obvious that at the moment, Obama does NOT equal change...since this kinda stuff is nothing new, it's old hat. The thing that will make or break is presidency is based off old ideas. Old ideas that failed miserably at that. So here's to hoping that he reads the whole thing through himself and understands just what he's about to do to all of us...because if he just signs it and doesn't or just skims it...he's just as much to fault as everyone else in the LaLa Land that is Washington, D.C. If it works...I'll say "Hey, nice job" if it doesn't...expect the heat on a few Democrats that rushed this through. It's only fair trade since I'm not overly happy with the Republicans for what they did on the $700billion last year and I'll be the first to say that too. Current Mood: aggravated Tags: political rant

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